Rick Gaskins - Executive Director

& Riverkeeper

Office:

To report a pollution violation

Call 1.888.679.9494 toll-free

Request a CRF Staff member to speak at your next civic meeting

If you would like a CRF Staff member to speak about the work of the Riverkeeper and issues facing the Catawba River please fill out the speaker request form and return it to our CRF office. Speaker Request Form

Volunteer to Speak on Behalf of CRF

We receive a large number of speaking engagement requests from the community, and we would like to be able to fulfill all requests. Some presentation topics include:

Overview of Environmental Issues in the Catawba Basin

Common Issues

Buffer zone violations

Coal ash seepage

Sediment & stormwater runoff

Sewage overflows

Water Quality Issues

Sediment

Stormwater

Sewage

Coal ash ponds

Thermal pollution

Other

Water Quantity Issues

Inter-Basin Transfers

Drought

Minimum Ecological Flows

Threats to Water Security in the Catawba Basin

Coal ash ponds

Nuclear power plants

Fish and Wildlife in the Catawba Basin

Environmental Stewardship and the Catawba River

The Tale of Two Watersheds: Sugar Creek and the Catawba River

History of the Catawba River

How the Catawba River Won the Revolutionary War

Early exploration of the Catawba Basin

If you are interested in volunteering your time to deliver a presentation or speech on behalf of CRF please fill out the Volunteer Speaker Form

In 2012, SCE&G settled a lawsuit brought by the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation and the Southern Environmental Law Center by agreeing to clean up a leaking ash pond at its power plant on the Catawba-Wateree River. According to a recent report, that cleanup is ahead of schedule. Unlike SCE&G, Duke Energy has not cleaned up any of its ash ponds on the Catawba-Wateree River.

As State officials return from the holidays and begin sifting through all of the information being generated about the coal ash ponds in North Carolina, it is becoming apparent that the problem is bigger than previously believed, and that very little is know about how whether the contamination from the ash ponds will affect drinking water wells or other water supplies.

Click here to fill out a pollution reportor to report water pollution to Catawba Riverkeeper by phone, call 1-888-679-9494 or 704-679-9494. In addition, to informing your Riverkeeper, you should also report spills or contamination to federal, state and local environmental officials.

To report South Carolina water pollution call 1-888-481-0125.

To report North Carolina spills or fish kills, call your local regional Department of Environment & Natural Resources office during normal business hours (704-663-1699 for most Catawba basin areas or (828) 296-4500 for Burke, Caldwell, McDowell and other mountain counties) or 800-858-0368 after hours. (For more information on NC spill reporting, click here)

Alliances

The Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation is a proud member of EarthShare North Carolina, the North Carolina Conservation Network, River Network and the Waterkeeper Alliance.